A Cost-effective Mic Pre for Your 500 Series Rack Are you hunting for a reasonably priced yet high-quality microphone preamp for your 500 Series rack? If so, the Fredenstein Artistic MicPre SE is an excellent-sounding mic pre with class-leading performance and numerous great features. For starters, this 500 Series module is built around a fully discrete op-amp, yielding 65dB of clean gain, and it boasts a top-notch high-impedance instrument input. You get switchable +48V phantom power, a -20dB pad, a low-cut filter, and a polarity invert. An ultra-precise, multi-colored LED peak meter rounds out the Artistic MicPre SE’s generous feature set. To top it off, the Artistic MicPre SE isn’t cloned from an older design; it’s a completely new circuit developed by Fredenstein’s crack team of German-American engineers and manufactured using cost-effective surface-mount technology.A feature-packed mic preamp module The Artistic MicPre SE packs a lot of functionality into a compact